On Thursday 29 Mar 2012 08:01:32 Vincent Untz wrote:
Le mercredi 28 mars 2012, à 21:10 +0200, Jos Poortvliet a écrit :
To get something out of the way: if you run your DESKTOP system more than a week or two, expect /tmp to grow BIG. 2 GB is nothing in my experience. Thumbnailers sometimes leave data behind and so do things like flash, web browsers, inkscape, transcoding apps, CD Burners, some compiles ... This might be due to apps misbehaving but we're not Fedora, we handle the world as it is - not as it should be.
For reference, 2GB is very very far away from my experience (after 20 days of uptime). It might be worth investigating why it's so big for you -- and we can help fix the broken apps like thumbnailers.
Also, by default, we clean files in /tmp that are older than 10 days. It might help with the switch to tmpfs.
I'm in agreement, I don't see a heavy usage pattern in /tmp at all. I would like that the default be tmpfs for /tmp, I have this already on my workstations and it aligns with my future plans for servers as well. However I see the concerns of the list and understand where they come from having had a couple of apps fail due to a filled up /tmp dir. If we don't do this as a default for 12.2, let's please get it on the agenda for 12.3 and we can get the word out early. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org